Excerpt: "That’s why [Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardener's International is] continuing the work of Eat The View, which is now focusing on getting state governors to grow food gardens to demonstrate the significant role that small food gardens can play in food production.
One of the first tasks of this new venture is supporting the “Dig for Texas,” petition, an initiative in Texas to urge the gubernatorial candidates there to pledge to dig a garden if elected. The non-partisan group who put this together is hoping to inspire statewide support of home and community fruit and vegetable gardens by showcasing the history of the Texas Governor’s Mansion Garden."
• Texas's Next Guv Targeted by Garden Varieties Mob (San Antonio Current QueQue blog) - Author: Greg Harman
Excerpt: "The success of the online White House garden campaign that helped fill the Obama’s new digs with healthy veggies and consequently forge inroads for new rows across the nation’s urban landscape has inspired a Texas-centric outgrowth.
If some of the names and organizations sound familiar, they should. Those presidential pesterers, Kitchen Gardener’s International, sprouted from Maine-based Eat the View, which had cross-pollinated two years back with San Antonio garden-culture blogging diva Pamela Price (of “Urban Garden Revolution” fame, our feature on the Alamo City renegades fighting for food-justice fight in one of the nation’s fattest cities)."
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